Lao Prime Minister Thongloun Sisoulith and Vice President Phankham Viphavan have urged Vietnam’s Ministry of Home Affairs to continue assisting its Lao counterpart in personnel training, particularly at the district level. 

 Vietnam’s export of aquatic products maintained a two-digit growth in the first half of 2018 and is forecast to continue growing strongly in the rest of the year despite plunging shrimp prices across the world.

 The Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development has requested coastal cities and provinces to employ multiple measures to crack down on illegal, unreported, and unregulated or IUU fishing.

 The General Statistics Office reported Vietnam’s index of industrial production increased 10.5 percent on-year in the first half of this year.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Hanoi officials want to make it compulsory to open a new bank account to register a car.

Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Pham Binh Minh has called on the Bulgarian National Assembly (NA) to support the Governments of Vietnam and Bulgaria in taking measures to develop the bilateral ties comprehensively and pragmatically. 

 A massive surge of Hanoians have been flocking to swimming pools in recent days to escape the intense heatwave hitting the north of Vietnam this the week. 

 The 6th Vietnam-Japan defence policy dialogue took place in Tokyo on July 4 under the chair of Vietnamese Deputy Defence Minister Sen. Lt. Gen. Nguyen Chi Vinh and Japanese Deputy Defence Minister Ro Manabe.

 The medical centre at Tran Van Thoi district in the Mekong Delta province of Ca Mau has confirmed one death from the A/H1N1 influenza. 

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VietNamNet Bridge - Vietnam is still the Number 1 cashew exporter in the world with 65 percent of market share, but cashew companies are facing problems such as lack of raw materials.

VietNamNet Bridge - A conventional wind turbine (> 1 MW) comprises 8,000 components, many of which Vietnam could manufacture.  

VietNamNet Bridge - Under the national power development plan in 2011-2020 (seventh plan) approved by the Prime Minister in 2016, a series of coal-fired power plants will be built in the Mekong Delta.

VietNamNet Bridge - Scientific research remains one of the weakest points of Hanoi and HCMC National Universities, which appeared in the QS 2019 ranking.

 Banks expect a buoyant profit picture in the first six months of this year in the wake of positive credit growth and rising incomes from the services segment.

 The Vietnamese Embassy in the Czech Republic has expressed deep concern about the remark on Vietnam made by Lubomir Zaoralek, Chairman of the Czech Chamber of Deputies’ Foreign Affairs Committee, at the committee’s meeting on June 21.

 Deputy Prime Minister Vuong Dinh Hue on July 3 visited Sao Paulo, the largest financial and industrial hub of Brazil and the North American region, as part of his ongoing visit to Brazil.

 The mid-term Vietnam Business Forum (VBF) 2018, themed “Linkage between domestic and FDI businesses – Partnership for mutual benefit”, opened in Hanoi on July 4. 

 Nine new laws will become effective on July 1, 2018, including the Law on Public Debt Management; Law on amendments and supplementations to some articles of the Law on Overseas Representative Missions of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam.

 L’Usine is hosting "Water is Life" art exhibition by New York-based artist Sto Len at its outlet on Dong Khoi Street and “Season Energeia” exhibition by Japanese artist Yohei Yama at L’Usine Le Thanh Ton.